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Elizabethton, Tennessee sits at a spot historians consider one of the most important in the entire state. In 1772, settlers

Harman, West Virginia sits in a narrow valley between the Allegheny Mountains and Rich Mountain, a town of fewer than

Mountain City, Tennessee sits at 2,418 feet above sea level, making it the highest incorporated town in the entire state

The Ice Mountain community near Capon Bridge, West Virginia takes its name from a genuine natural wonder next door. Ice

Mathias, West Virginia sits along a river with a genuinely strange trick: the Lost River flows for roughly 30 miles

Roanoke, Virginia grew so fast after the Norfolk & Western Railway arrived in the 1880s that locals started calling it

Whitesburg, Georgia sits along the Chattahoochee River in Carroll County, on land that was once home to Creek leader William

Birchwood, Tennessee sits where the Hiwassee River meets the Tennessee River, a rural crossroads carrying some of the region’s most

Capon Bridge, West Virginia takes its name from the Cacapon River, itself derived from a Shawnee phrase, “Cape-cape-de-hon,” meaning “river

La Fayette, Georgia takes its name from the Marquis de Lafayette, the French officer who fought alongside George Washington in